Counterculture audiences rejected Godard’s avant-garde film as boring and hypocritical.

Evidence

The Berkeley Barb provided a lively account of Godard’s packed UC Berkeley screening: “A vocal minority accused Brother Jean-Luc of being a hypocritical, male chauvinist, image-seeking, self-satisfied, arrogant poseur; a silent majority convicted him of having made a boring film.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2024

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s test of cultural stagnation claims — even at its peak, the counterculture audience rejected the most radical avant-garde work, complicating the idea of a unified avant-garde-counterculture moment.